Ascent Trip Report

Artski and I parked at the driveway with a metal sign reading Thomas Builer, the owner of the highpoint. We walked up to the tree shrouded house and had to open a gate to get to the door. We knocked twice and eventually a short woman came out and became very excited when we said we wanted to go to the highpoint. She said we were not the first to come find it and that she still had not gone herself. She allowed us permission and then ran back inside. We then walked up some steps and around to the northeast side of the garage. The forest was very open with low grass and not many bushes. We found an old stone fence marking the edge of the meadow seen on the aerial photos. We thought the highest point was a boulder that appeared to not be part of the fence, but was directly inline with the fence yet ten feet further northeast. If this boulder is not naturally place, a 10" diameter tree with a yellow ribbon on it just five feet from the rock was the high ground. We were unable to find more ribbons to form the hypothesized county line. This is a very easy hike once you get permission.